Edmund Morris Quotes

...The peculiarity about him is that he has what is essentially a boy's mind. What he thinks he says at once, says aloud. It is his distinguishing characteristic, and I don't know as he will ever outgrow it. But with it he has great qualities which make him an invaluable public servant--inflexible honesty, absolute fearlessness, and devotion to good government which amounts to religion. We must let him work his way, for nobody can induce him to change it

Edmund Morris

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• What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller government and lower taxes. Obama and the Democrats do not. We are a party that wants to encourage small business. We are a party that has a large constituent group that believes in a social agenda and we will not abandon them.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Business
  • Small
  • Party

• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Heart
  • Love

• There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a replacement for getting in the way, actively, of the fossil fuel industry and preventing them from destroying our chances of a future on a livable planet? It's not a replacement.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Job
  • Future
  • Free

• The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • World
  • Why
  • Strong

• Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Government
  • Uncertainty

• If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

  

  Gary Hart
  • Want
  • Government
  • Hands

• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • True
  • Religion

• America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Why
  • America
  • Government

• The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Together
  • Government

• Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Law
  • Government
  • Natural

• Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • Action
  • Government

• We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Government
  • New
  • New York

• Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Government
  • Most
  • Albania

• In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Party
  • Government
  • Fight

• Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Up
  • Good
  • Education

• Royal titles ceased to be recognised by the Indian government in 1971. The title of Nawab and Maharaja are not recognised by the Indian government anymore.

  

  Saif Ali Khan
  • Government
  • Titles
  • Royal

• I'm religiously opposed to religion.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Religion
  • Opposed

• People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter.

  

  Irena Sendler
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• The God of popular religion is not holy.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Religion
  • Popular

• The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Life
  • Up
  • May

• What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Stop

• The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it. While you continue to be splenetic, count upon it I will always preach. Thus much I sympathize with you that I am not cheerful enough to write, for I believe Coffee once a week is necessary to that.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Write
  • Coffee
  • I Believe

• Those elegant delights of jig and vaulting.

  

  Elijah Fenton
  • Delights
  • Elegant

• ...The peculiarity about him is that he has what is essentially a boy's mind. What he thinks he says at once, says aloud. It is his distinguishing characteristic, and I don't know as he will ever outgrow it. But with it he has great qualities which make him an invaluable public servant--inflexible honesty, absolute fearlessness, and devotion to good government which amounts to religion. We must let him work his way, for nobody can induce him to change it

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Government
  • Religion
  • Qualities